We’re grateful to feel yours and Gingers love and support and true understanding. Our visit w you was sweet, even though I had to rush off mid conversation...Life is good. Thank you. Your decision to write from your heart and share your impressions here is working...don’t ‘end’ anytime soon.😉
This post about The End? was a great nudge for me to reconsider what I often pray for to have an end...instead I love Pres Eyrings counsel and will do a little better to let them help us right at our level. Love this. Thank you for your ongoing years of ministering to our family my friend.
Thank you for this. So, yesterday we shared our angst for the hope and desire of being ‘finished’ w the specific hard thing that showed up after years. Hadnt we done enough, sacrificed, spent a fortune, loved, and given hope and opportunity...we felt we had in ways and it was good and was noble and all of the other praises we’ve heard for years, and yet...we seemingly start over every single day at some level. Really? Again? Rewind? Yup! Sigh! and yet miraculously...there’s power and strength and ability and nudging and hugs. So grateful for these!
So I love all you shared as a wonderful perspective to eternity where there wasn’t meant to be an end to growth...and then the question from the first comment above...What should I do differently??? Wow. I don’t like that but it’s full of wisdom.
Where do I start right? Of all the things I could do differently, a thought comes from the words in the intro to the Come Follow Me manual. ...”to become a “new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). This means relying on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to help us change our hearts, our views, our actions, and our very natures.” -Conversion is the Goal
Starting over when we feel we should be at the ‘end’ makes me sigh and despair sometimes, but then...just maybe I can find the strength to rely more on Him for the help he offers...I do have a super imperfect particle of faith to exercise...and that’s a new start. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.
My dear friend. My heart was tender after I had the opportunity to speak with you and your sweetheart. I was reminded of the great struggle over a long period (continuing even today) to help children understand who they are and Whose they are. The answer that has brought us help is one you are already living with great faith: Deepening one’s relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost provide us with the love and heavenly power to reflect the love that heaven has for that child. It’s a long game and one full of ups and downs, good days and (sometimes very) bad days. I love this teaching from President Eyring: “The Father, the Savior & the Holy Ghost are pleased with what we're trying to do. They're saying please, please, let us help. Let us help down at the level of the individual in whatever difficult circumstance they're in. If they'll pray, if they'll study the life of the Savior, try to be like Him, if they'll just try to feel the inspiration of the Spirit and then do what the Spirit says, then this miracle that's going to happen - will happen. Get the help down to the level of the individuals, whatever their circumstances. We will get to higher spiritual ground and They want us to go there and They are in place to help us." I don’t know exactly how things are managed beyond the veil, but I have to believe that there are countless legions of heavenly helpers bringing help, comfort, strength and assurances of divine love to you and your “little ones.” What a joyous day is ahead when each member of your family is healed and whole and free of all mortal infirmities. Know you are loved and in my prayers.
I'm sure many can relate to this. I can. We sometimes accomplish what we think are great things. Pay the price. Make the sacrifice. Spend the time. Finish the studying. Everything. And then, things don't turn out. It does take humility, doesn't it? And then the wondering, what should I do differently?
Thanks Lance! It is hard to know sometimes how to proceed. The gift we have is the assurance that He won’t let us wander into dangerous territory without warning us, while sometimes allowing us to go the “wrong way” in order to allow for needed lessons.
Amen! Yes, it is why we can be happy - no matter what. There will always be "Joy in the Morning!"
We’re grateful to feel yours and Gingers love and support and true understanding. Our visit w you was sweet, even though I had to rush off mid conversation...Life is good. Thank you. Your decision to write from your heart and share your impressions here is working...don’t ‘end’ anytime soon.😉
This post about The End? was a great nudge for me to reconsider what I often pray for to have an end...instead I love Pres Eyrings counsel and will do a little better to let them help us right at our level. Love this. Thank you for your ongoing years of ministering to our family my friend.
Thank you for this. So, yesterday we shared our angst for the hope and desire of being ‘finished’ w the specific hard thing that showed up after years. Hadnt we done enough, sacrificed, spent a fortune, loved, and given hope and opportunity...we felt we had in ways and it was good and was noble and all of the other praises we’ve heard for years, and yet...we seemingly start over every single day at some level. Really? Again? Rewind? Yup! Sigh! and yet miraculously...there’s power and strength and ability and nudging and hugs. So grateful for these!
So I love all you shared as a wonderful perspective to eternity where there wasn’t meant to be an end to growth...and then the question from the first comment above...What should I do differently??? Wow. I don’t like that but it’s full of wisdom.
Where do I start right? Of all the things I could do differently, a thought comes from the words in the intro to the Come Follow Me manual. ...”to become a “new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). This means relying on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ to help us change our hearts, our views, our actions, and our very natures.” -Conversion is the Goal
Starting over when we feel we should be at the ‘end’ makes me sigh and despair sometimes, but then...just maybe I can find the strength to rely more on Him for the help he offers...I do have a super imperfect particle of faith to exercise...and that’s a new start. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.
My dear friend. My heart was tender after I had the opportunity to speak with you and your sweetheart. I was reminded of the great struggle over a long period (continuing even today) to help children understand who they are and Whose they are. The answer that has brought us help is one you are already living with great faith: Deepening one’s relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost provide us with the love and heavenly power to reflect the love that heaven has for that child. It’s a long game and one full of ups and downs, good days and (sometimes very) bad days. I love this teaching from President Eyring: “The Father, the Savior & the Holy Ghost are pleased with what we're trying to do. They're saying please, please, let us help. Let us help down at the level of the individual in whatever difficult circumstance they're in. If they'll pray, if they'll study the life of the Savior, try to be like Him, if they'll just try to feel the inspiration of the Spirit and then do what the Spirit says, then this miracle that's going to happen - will happen. Get the help down to the level of the individuals, whatever their circumstances. We will get to higher spiritual ground and They want us to go there and They are in place to help us." I don’t know exactly how things are managed beyond the veil, but I have to believe that there are countless legions of heavenly helpers bringing help, comfort, strength and assurances of divine love to you and your “little ones.” What a joyous day is ahead when each member of your family is healed and whole and free of all mortal infirmities. Know you are loved and in my prayers.
I can also relate. I've learned that it is because the Lord wants even more for us than we want for ourselves. Thanks again for inspiration!
Candy - knowing that makes such a difference, doesn’t it?
I'm sure many can relate to this. I can. We sometimes accomplish what we think are great things. Pay the price. Make the sacrifice. Spend the time. Finish the studying. Everything. And then, things don't turn out. It does take humility, doesn't it? And then the wondering, what should I do differently?
Thanks Lance! It is hard to know sometimes how to proceed. The gift we have is the assurance that He won’t let us wander into dangerous territory without warning us, while sometimes allowing us to go the “wrong way” in order to allow for needed lessons.